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shillyshally
 
Noun shillyshally has 1 sense
  1. procrastination, cunctation, shillyshally - the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
    --1 is a kind of delay, holdup
    Derived form: verb shillyshally2
Verb shillyshally has 2 senses
  1. shillyshally - be uncertain and vague
    --1 is one way to     hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally - postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
    --2 is one way to delay
    Derived form: noun shillyshally1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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